In the emerging debate over how extensively to define the enemy facing the West we need to avoid both wishful thinking and hysteria. The minimalists who insist that the enemy is only a small band of ...

Fact-Checking Trump’s Claim That Venezuela Stole Oil and Land from the U.S. The Arsenal of Democracy Can’t Be Backordered Trump’s China Chip Deal and the Sale of American National Security From ...

Arizona Congressman Trent Franks is no theologian. But he wanted the U.S. government to parse Islamic doctrine and survey Muslim religious leaders in an amendment that failed on Friday morning in the ...

Words seem to fall apart as I try to write this and feelings seem to be almost indigestible. How can I just tell you that I’m ashamed? Let my soul belong to God, and let my heart, mind and body fall ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

[An excerpt from Religious Freedom in Islam: The Fate of a Universal Human Right in the Muslim World Today:] In June 2009, Barack Obama, early in his first term as President of the United States, ...

The plan, according to the Bush administration, was to build a firewall around Islamic terrorism in the Middle East by promoting democracy. So how did it happen that the most democratic mechanism of ...

Chen Guangyuan, president of the Islamic Association of China (IAC), slammed the riot on July 5 in northwest China's Xinjiang, saying it has gone "against the basic doctrine of the Islam" and was "a ...

The statement has gone viral, prompting fierce backlash from civil society groups, human rights organisations, and several Islamic scholars who denounced the remarks as extreme and dangerous. Sheikh ...